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Re: email-style italics



Could someone elucidate what exactly an "email style italic"
looks like?
like _this_. And bold looks like *this*. There is even a mechanism in
MS Word to convert, but while ' will be converted to left/right
single quote on a change replace, _ will not, so in an imported
document, you're stuck. At least I've tried it a dozen different ways
with no result.

>What program are you using to get these things?

Anything that writes.

> Why would you get two consecutive ones instead of balanced On-Off pairs?

Because you goofed.
Are you talking about the text markup convention of [I]italics[/I] or [B]bold[/B] or etc.? I haven't seen that outside of web forums.
No, I was just using that illustratively. Literally speaking, I might
want XyWrite to convert _italics_ to ≪mdit≫italics≪mdnm≫ or
Quark's xtg markup language italics

. (P for plain)

There was if I recall a XyWrite filter for Quark 3, but I don't think
it's usable in any later versions. But it would not have dealt with
this email method of designating _italics_ and *bold* -- which I
think is still needed for newsgroups but not for modern blogs where
html labels like ,  are available.